Re:Parent is flamebait and trollish. Mod down.
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LokiTorrent Shut Down
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The popularity of sites like Lokitorrent are an expression of the will of the people. The fact that something illegal (but not clearly immoral) is so popular is a demonstration of how disconnected our political/legislative system is from the will of the people.
This website has been permanently shut down by court order because it facilitates the illegal downloading of copyrighted motion pictures. The illegal downloading of motion pictures robs thousands of honest, hard-working people of their livelihood, and stifles creativity. Illegally downloading movies from sites such as these without proper authorization violates the law, is theft, and is not anonymous. Stealing movies leaves a trail. The only way not to get caught is to stop.
Am I the only one who is absolutely repulsed by that message? A friend just said, after reading it, "wow... how come I feel that i was just glared at by the SS?". This kind of brainwashing is the same bullshit that got Bush re-elected. Our society requires an informed populace to function properly. All the powers that be are manipulating public perception to suite their own needs and it really, really, needs to stop.
~Lake
Re:what about plotting waypoints on the map?
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Mapping Google Maps
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Here are two things on my todolist:
Convert Long/Lat into Tile X Y to download specific image tiles.
Associate steps in directions with a long / lat.
Anyone managed either of those yet?
~Lake
Re:what about plotting waypoints on the map?
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Mapping Google Maps
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Thanks man. I was hoping someone would volunteer some code to decode that, though I was thinking maybe code that was at least as readable points data. Do I live with the kludge of calling an external perl script, or try to turn that into equivalent java? ugh.
Feh, I meant to hit the preview button, went to edit the example script into something that actually works (Like "tell application itunes to get duration of current track"), and there was no edit field. Ah well.
new NSAppleScript("get duration of current track").execute(new NSMutableDictionary());
That works when using Java against Cocoa (to mix even more languages). I happen to be working on an iPod-like interface to iTunes for touch screens today. It's for a car install. Link.
Though I have been having a weird issue where a script that compiled fine (it auto-compiles the script on execute if it isn't already) dozens of times 500ms apart, will spontaneously fail to compile. I was recompiling each time through the update loop when in testing and now caching the scripts has reduced the frequency of occurrence of the issue to be undetectable. But I'm still not thrilled.
You have obviously never had a good glass of fresh squeezed orange juice. And when I say fresh I mean you should visit Florida sometime. Best screwdrivers ever =)
Wow, it's been a while since I've seen that name. I remember always looking forward to the latest MacUser and MacWorld magazines to read Guy Kawasaki and and Andy Inhakto... Inhanitko? Inakto? Errr. He actually wrote a column once on the premise of how impossible it was to spell his name so I don't feel too bad not getting it right.
Great Folks. Anyone feel like saving me the Googling (speaking of brands) and give a first person account of what's become of them?
So my own Dad has is about the same age, and has been using Macs for about the same time (First a G3 Powerbook, now a flat panel iMac). He has gotten quite comfortable with it, and for a while I was using it sometimes as well. I didn't want to mess up what's in his dock and what files were on his desktop when I used it so I turned off the auto-login for his account and showed him the login screen.
Then one day he tells me "I can't log in to the iMac". "What's it doing?". "I click login and nothing happens." So I go and have a look at it. "Here, let me try". So I type in his user/pass and click login. Having just watched me do the exact same thing he did, he's amazed it works. So I log back out and watch him try it. User. Pass. Click login. Just like he said he did. And just like he said happened before: Nothing.
Then I noticed something. I'd left one of my Logitech MX500 mice plugged in. I'd been using the machine to write up some code at one point and wanted the scroll wheel. He'd been right-clicking on the login button.
He asked "So what button do I click?". I unplugged my MX500, plugged in the Apple (its-all-one-button) mouse and said "This One".
So. There you have it. A perfect example of someone who's been using macs for years that never had to think about a second mouse button and where adding one only caused problems. He wasn't missing any capabilities of the machine or its software (He wasn't using Maya, though::snicker::), and if I hadn't happened to be around would have genuinely thought the machine was broken.
In that video of Jobs demoing NeXT he says one of their usability tests is wether executives can learn the software without reading the manual. The one-button mouse is an extremely obvious-to-use device. Slide it around on the pad and you'll quickly catch on to the correlation between it and the mouse pointer. Then just push on it to interact with whatever you're pointing at.
Oh ya... and I can't stand it when user interfaces consist entirely of 'right click on it!'. It's a really, really, really, horrible way to interact with things and I've had to deal with many applications that worked this way in Windows. They're rare on a Mac, and usually evidence of a poorly ported application.
You might say, we've been able to copy video tapes, make tapes of records, or transcribe books and share them with friends for quite a while as well. The internet makes things that are the same in principle but on a smaller scale not only more possible but perhaps entirely comprehensive.
You have to apply an individual effort to avoid each newspaper ad, leave the room during a television ad, and so on. Just as making a tape for a friend or transcribing a book requires a great deal of effort for each iteration. But just as how p2p tech' has changed how we share information, ad-blockers could potentially become universal and comprehensively eliminate advertising revenue through no effort (even once) of the target audience.
The issue with a bounty system is it's exploitable.
Joe Griefer griefs Newbie Dude. Newbie Dude puts bounty on Joe Griefer. Bill Cohort is a friend of Joe Griefer. Joe Griefer flies a newbie ship, drops all his equipment or just picks a generally convenient time to die and lets Bill Cohort kill him. Bill Cohort and Joe Griefer split the bounty.
There are certain situations which eliminate this problem, but it is not a very flexible system and thus not widely applicable.
Here's a Register article from '02 talking about a paper from '00 from MS which discusses the FreeBSD/Solaris -> Win2K transition of Hotmail that you might find interesting.
Hotmail was purchased by MS ('97) and run for several years (transition started in 2k) before making the transition.
"Ultra"-MMORPG
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Wish Cancelled
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WISH made some noises about being the first "ultra" massively multiplayer online game, where "ultra massive" was defined as "over 10,000 players online at once in a single game world".
It's not impossible, but it is difficult. I guess they weren't up to it.
~Lake
P.S. Aside from just the user record, EVE is a pretty cool game and worth checking out. Very different than other MMORPGs out there. Kind've a modern mmorpg of Elite or Escape Velocity.
You, sir, are the very personification of what is wrong with this country. If you take your sig to be accurate and as you have had ample time to cure yourself of your ignorance, I propose that you are, in fact, stupid.
I don't see the original author having posted it yet, so here's a link to an interesting theory regarding the possibility that what we're looking at is in fact just the upper stage of a rocket launched some time ago.
First I turned off the ringer by my desk. It has a little flashing LED on it (presumably for the hard of hearing), and I can still hear the other phones in the house. But this way it just wasn't as annoying to wait out the ringing after I'd looked at the Caller ID and decided I didn't want to talk to "Marketing Services", but before the answering machine picked up.
Then I was somewhere else in the house and did the same on that phone. Rinse, repeat. Now that all the ringers are off I rationalized that if it's important (but they don't have my cell number) they can leave a message, and I'll check those all at once and call them back.
Now that everyone knows the home phone doesn't get answered, virtually all the messages are telemarketers. Since I know this I don't put a high priority on checking messages. So they accumulate. And instead of just a dozen messages, it's 20, 30 or more. I loathe skipping through them all so I let it go.
Now, the answering machine is full and doesn't pick up.
I suppose if the cable ever goes out I can at least use the landline for a dialup. Hardly seems worth the monthly fee though.
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The popularity of sites like Lokitorrent are an expression of the will of the people. The fact that something illegal (but not clearly immoral) is so popular is a demonstration of how disconnected our political/legislative system is from the will of the people.
~Lake
ergh, "suit their own needs". I guess that's what you get when you rant.
~Lake
This website has been permanently shut down by court order because it facilitates the illegal downloading of copyrighted motion pictures. The illegal downloading of motion pictures robs thousands of honest, hard-working people of their livelihood, and stifles creativity. Illegally downloading movies from sites such as these without proper authorization violates the law, is theft, and is not anonymous. Stealing movies leaves a trail. The only way not to get caught is to stop.
Am I the only one who is absolutely repulsed by that message? A friend just said, after reading it, "wow... how come I feel that i was just glared at by the SS?". This kind of brainwashing is the same bullshit that got Bush re-elected. Our society requires an informed populace to function properly. All the powers that be are manipulating public perception to suite their own needs and it really, really, needs to stop.
~Lake
Here are two things on my todolist:
Convert Long/Lat into Tile X Y to download specific image tiles.
Associate steps in directions with a long / lat.
Anyone managed either of those yet?
~Lake
Thanks man. I was hoping someone would volunteer some code to decode that, though I was thinking maybe code that was at least as readable points data. Do I live with the kludge of calling an external perl script, or try to turn that into equivalent java? ugh.
~Lake
Well you read the article, but apparently you haven't used Safari much. It most certainly does support iframes. Even the one on google maps.
~Lake
Feh, I meant to hit the preview button, went to edit the example script into something that actually works (Like "tell application itunes to get duration of current track"), and there was no edit field. Ah well.
~Lake
Though I have been having a weird issue where a script that compiled fine (it auto-compiles the script on execute if it isn't already) dozens of times 500ms apart, will spontaneously fail to compile. I was recompiling each time through the update loop when in testing and now caching the scripts has reduced the frequency of occurrence of the issue to be undetectable. But I'm still not thrilled.
~Lake
tell MaryNorburyGlaser to set its gender to male
Well the point, in my opinion, is to have hard orange juice, not fruity vodka. Perhaps that's a more acceptable notion to you?
~Lake
You have obviously never had a good glass of fresh squeezed orange juice. And when I say fresh I mean you should visit Florida sometime. Best screwdrivers ever =)
~Lake
Perhaps you should have looked to SGI.
~Lake
Wow, it's been a while since I've seen that name. I remember always looking forward to the latest MacUser and MacWorld magazines to read Guy Kawasaki and and Andy Inhakto... Inhanitko? Inakto? Errr. He actually wrote a column once on the premise of how impossible it was to spell his name so I don't feel too bad not getting it right.
Great Folks. Anyone feel like saving me the Googling (speaking of brands) and give a first person account of what's become of them?
~Lake
So my own Dad has is about the same age, and has been using Macs for about the same time (First a G3 Powerbook, now a flat panel iMac). He has gotten quite comfortable with it, and for a while I was using it sometimes as well. I didn't want to mess up what's in his dock and what files were on his desktop when I used it so I turned off the auto-login for his account and showed him the login screen.
::snicker::), and if I hadn't happened to be around would have genuinely thought the machine was broken.
Then one day he tells me "I can't log in to the iMac". "What's it doing?". "I click login and nothing happens." So I go and have a look at it. "Here, let me try". So I type in his user/pass and click login. Having just watched me do the exact same thing he did, he's amazed it works. So I log back out and watch him try it. User. Pass. Click login. Just like he said he did. And just like he said happened before: Nothing.
Then I noticed something. I'd left one of my Logitech MX500 mice plugged in. I'd been using the machine to write up some code at one point and wanted the scroll wheel. He'd been right-clicking on the login button.
He asked "So what button do I click?". I unplugged my MX500, plugged in the Apple (its-all-one-button) mouse and said "This One".
So. There you have it. A perfect example of someone who's been using macs for years that never had to think about a second mouse button and where adding one only caused problems. He wasn't missing any capabilities of the machine or its software (He wasn't using Maya, though
In that video of Jobs demoing NeXT he says one of their usability tests is wether executives can learn the software without reading the manual. The one-button mouse is an extremely obvious-to-use device. Slide it around on the pad and you'll quickly catch on to the correlation between it and the mouse pointer. Then just push on it to interact with whatever you're pointing at.
Oh ya... and I can't stand it when user interfaces consist entirely of 'right click on it!'. It's a really, really, really, horrible way to interact with things and I've had to deal with many applications that worked this way in Windows. They're rare on a Mac, and usually evidence of a poorly ported application.
~Lake
What the hell... Did you just attribute to GWB a quote by Albert Einstein?
~Lake
Anybody else see the irony in this?
Uhm. Not really, no.
~Lake
You might say, we've been able to copy video tapes, make tapes of records, or transcribe books and share them with friends for quite a while as well. The internet makes things that are the same in principle but on a smaller scale not only more possible but perhaps entirely comprehensive.
You have to apply an individual effort to avoid each newspaper ad, leave the room during a television ad, and so on. Just as making a tape for a friend or transcribing a book requires a great deal of effort for each iteration. But just as how p2p tech' has changed how we share information, ad-blockers could potentially become universal and comprehensively eliminate advertising revenue through no effort (even once) of the target audience.
~Lake
The issue with a bounty system is it's exploitable.
Joe Griefer griefs Newbie Dude. Newbie Dude puts bounty on Joe Griefer. Bill Cohort is a friend of Joe Griefer. Joe Griefer flies a newbie ship, drops all his equipment or just picks a generally convenient time to die and lets Bill Cohort kill him. Bill Cohort and Joe Griefer split the bounty.
There are certain situations which eliminate this problem, but it is not a very flexible system and thus not widely applicable.
~Lake
Here's a Register article from '02 talking about a paper from '00 from MS which discusses the FreeBSD/Solaris -> Win2K transition of Hotmail that you might find interesting.
Hotmail was purchased by MS ('97) and run for several years (transition started in 2k) before making the transition.
Infact, here's a slashdot article on just that topic.
~Lake
WISH made some noises about being the first "ultra" massively multiplayer online game, where "ultra massive" was defined as "over 10,000 players online at once in a single game world".
EVE: Online (a space based mmorpg) did this back in April of '04.
It's not impossible, but it is difficult. I guess they weren't up to it.
~Lake
P.S. Aside from just the user record, EVE is a pretty cool game and worth checking out. Very different than other MMORPGs out there. Kind've a modern mmorpg of Elite or Escape Velocity.
A blog - short for "web log" - is an online personal journal that covers topics ranging from daily life to technology to culture to the arts.
Did we really need 'blog' defined in the blurb? This is Slashdot after all...
~Lake
Why is it I never had mod points when I actually want them? Please Mod Parent up, I'm now addicted to "N".
~Lake
You, sir, are the very personification of what is wrong with this country. If you take your sig to be accurate and as you have had ample time to cure yourself of your ignorance, I propose that you are, in fact, stupid.
~Lake
I don't see the original author having posted it yet, so here's a link to an interesting theory regarding the possibility that what we're looking at is in fact just the upper stage of a rocket launched some time ago.
~Lake
First I turned off the ringer by my desk. It has a little flashing LED on it (presumably for the hard of hearing), and I can still hear the other phones in the house. But this way it just wasn't as annoying to wait out the ringing after I'd looked at the Caller ID and decided I didn't want to talk to "Marketing Services", but before the answering machine picked up.
Then I was somewhere else in the house and did the same on that phone. Rinse, repeat. Now that all the ringers are off I rationalized that if it's important (but they don't have my cell number) they can leave a message, and I'll check those all at once and call them back.
Now that everyone knows the home phone doesn't get answered, virtually all the messages are telemarketers. Since I know this I don't put a high priority on checking messages. So they accumulate. And instead of just a dozen messages, it's 20, 30 or more. I loathe skipping through them all so I let it go.
Now, the answering machine is full and doesn't pick up.
I suppose if the cable ever goes out I can at least use the landline for a dialup. Hardly seems worth the monthly fee though.
~Lake